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Uniform Title Social and solidarity economy (2015)
Title Social and solidarity economy : beyond the fringe / edited by Peter Utting
Published London : Zed Books, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 386 pages) : illustrations
Series Just sustainabilities: policy, planning and practice
Just sustainabilities.
Contents History, theory and strategy -- Collective action and solidarity in practice
Summary As economic crises, growing inequality and climate change prompt a global debate on the meaning and trajectory of development, increasing attention is focusing on 'social and solidarity economy' as a distinctive approach to sustainable and rights-based development. While we are beginning to understand what social and solidarity economy is, what it promises and how it differs from 'business as usual', we know far less about whether it can really move beyond its fringe status in many countries and regions. Under what conditions can social and solidarity economy scale up and scale out - that is,
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes "Published in association with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development"--Title page verso
English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed April 14, 2015)
Subject Sustainable development -- Social aspects
Economics -- Sociological aspects.
Economic development -- Social aspects.
Solidarity -- Economic aspects
Social change.
Cooperative societies.
Cooperative societies -- Case studies
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development.
Cooperative societies
Economic development -- Social aspects
Economics -- Sociological aspects
Social change
Sustainable development -- Social aspects
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Utting, Peter, editor, writer of introduction
Laville, Jean-Louis. Social and solidarity economy in historical perspective
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.
ISBN 9781783603466
1783603461